Re: [DL] Random RV&C2 quesitons [John Goff]

["Derek D. Bass" <wangenstein@mad.scientist.com>]

Why not an searchable index that contained the words for each page? Not in
text order, that isn't necessary for the index to work. Why not in
alphabetical order? A paragraph like, "The quick brown huckster jumped over
the lazy zombie. The zombie ate the huckster. Poor huckster." would show up
in the data portion of the index as "ate brown huckster jumped lazy over
poor the quick zombie", with each individual word appearing only once per
page. It would be incomprehensible if hacked, smaller in size than if
padded, and still return page numbers and book titles. What does everyone
think?

Derek "Databass" D. Bass

Etheric Musings--The Science of the Sons of Ether
http://web.cari.net/~ddbass/Ether.htm
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Patrick Phalen wrote:

>
> You mean like an index?
>
> Patrick

No, not like an index, I want a keyword searchable cross-referenced
index, heck, if I could digitize all my deadlands books so they would be
searchable and transportable Via Laptop... or better yet, PDA or HPC,
but I know that is a pipe dream... so I would settle for a more
obtainable dream of a keyword searchable bookset available on the web.
I am sure it could be properly secured somehow.  Heck the database could
always be filled with a couple 20 gigs of gibberish on a separate table
in the database, so that anyone trying to download it in it's entirety
would have to wait a century or two for it to download.

Ok, lets see someone shoot this one down... come on, I know you can do
it!

--D

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